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Find textbooks at Alibris!

NOTE: Overstock bests Amazon's prices and is "blue."

THE BOOKS WITH "BUZZ":
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story:

True Compass: A Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy.

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

Boran2 and maryb2004 recommend:

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde

Must-have information for all presidents-and citizens-of the twenty-first century?

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

On BooMan’s shelf:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

Here’s a good one from
Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

"Crash" * Best Motion Picture, Academy Awards * Only $11.79 at Overstock * 2006 SAG Winner, Best Ensemble

Check out
Powell's new section:
NEW FAVORITES

Selected new arrivals at 30% off

Recommended by Indianadem and ejmw:
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Wellstone

From northcountry’s bookshelf:

The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
by Ravi Batra

A novel about contractors in Iraq from the woman that runs The Spy That Billed Me:

Outsourced: A Novel
from RJ Hillhouse.


Great Deals
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Find mystery novels by Nancy Pickard ("Kansas")



Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power by Phyllis Bennis (interviewed on DN!)


Featured by Keith Olbermann, New (Powell's Sale): Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum (whose other books merit serious consideration)


"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review


BT's all-time best seller:

PERMACULTURE:
A Designers' Manual

$79.95 * Sale: $59.95


Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)


The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan


Green Press Initiative
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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists by Eleanor Mills * NYT review


Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies & Their Journey


1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus



Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
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Check out Powell's
"At The Movies"


Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World by Noam Chomsky (Power & Terror: Post 9-11 Talks)


The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of
Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

by Madeline Levine


Save 35-70% on
name brand clothing,
footwear, and outdoor gear
at SierraTradingPost.com

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We listened to PEN American Center's "State of Emergency" and found 1940s books by Curzio Malaparte only at Alibris. (Selection (MP3) excerpted from "The Skin.")

Alibris - Books You Thought You'd Never Find
Banned Books * Are you a fan of Film Noir, Art House, Documentaries or Hong Kong Action? * Searching for a long-lost children's book or a first printing of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue on vinyl? Find it at Alibris!

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Oh, that's so good. Fax that to Lorne Michaels at SNL. Seriously.

Here's the fax at his NY production company:

212-713-1535

Seriously.


"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Wed Mar 5th, 2008 at 05:19:26 PM EST
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I second what RHL said. That's BRILLIANT.

"That was EIGHT YEARS AGO!" priceless!

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

by brendan on Wed Mar 5th, 2008 at 05:23:50 PM EST
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Oh and thanks to you too Brendan (didn't mean to leave you out, I thought I was replying to you)

When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that your primary objective was to drain the swamp.
by Omir the Storyteller (omir.the.storyteller -CAT- gmail -DOG- com) on Wed Mar 5th, 2008 at 05:31:18 PM EST
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Sorry, no can do. No TV show takes unsolicited manuscripts. In fact they won't look at anything unless an agent submits it. That's why I was thinking Brave New Films -- if anyone's going to do ads like this they need to jump on them NOW, not after I hire an agent.

But thank you, and thank you Fabooj, I'm glad you think it's worthy of TV.

When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that your primary objective was to drain the swamp.

by Omir the Storyteller (omir.the.storyteller -CAT- gmail -DOG- com) on Wed Mar 5th, 2008 at 05:30:00 PM EST
[ Parent ]
If you sent it with a release saying this is for the good of the country, I don't need compensation, they'd probably read it! ;-)

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes
by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Wed Mar 5th, 2008 at 06:04:56 PM EST
[ Parent ]
No, trust me, they won't look at it and would send any such manuscript back unopened. Too many people have sued TV studios in the past because they sent in a half-assed script, then later on something remotely similar to the script appears on TV, so obviously the studio stole their script and the would-be writer sued. Somebody like Greenwald's my best bet. (Especially since I'm donating money to his election project.)

When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that your primary objective was to drain the swamp.
by Omir the Storyteller (omir.the.storyteller -CAT- gmail -DOG- com) on Wed Mar 5th, 2008 at 06:54:06 PM EST
[ Parent ]
And fax to his Chicago and DC Senate offices too. Someone there will laugh and pass it along!

Chicago: (312) 886-3514

DC: (202) 228-4260 fax

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Wed Mar 5th, 2008 at 06:19:01 PM EST
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